20 Apr
2012
20 Apr
'12
1:29 p.m.
Did anyone see the piece in the latest issue of IEEE Computer on "Software Crisis 2.0"? (April 2012, 89-91). While historians of computing have been moving away from the idea that the "software crisis" was a real phenomenon (see, e.g., Tom Haigh's essays on this), the computer scientist who wrote this article refers to the crisis as "well-documented" and "confirmed." Not only that, he claims there is a new software crisis upon us, fueled by information overload and demands for ubiquitous computing. Am I right that there is a gap in perception here between practitioners and historians? Dr. Janet Abbate Associate Professor Science & Technology in Society Virginia Tech